Acknowledgements Abbreviations1. Pigou in the Foreground2. 'The Most Brilliant Young Man I Know'3. Developing a Framework4. The Theory of Policy Analysis5. The Cost Controversies6. The Robbins Critique7. Confrontations with Keynes8. LegacyNotesReferencesIndex
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The British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-59) reconceptualized economics as a theory of economic welfare and a logic of policy analysis. Misconceptions of his work abound. This book, an essay in demystification and the first reading of the entire Pigouvian oeuvre, stresses his pragmatic and historicist premises.